Chap. V. The III IS TÒRY of the PURITANS, 177 (I 4.) " It is papiflical to forbid marriages at certain times of the year; Queen " and to give licences in thofe-times is intolerable. El ;Zabeech, (1 s.) " Private marriages, that is, fuch as are not publithedbefore the 9 " congregation, are highly inconvenient. (16.) The obfervation ofLent, and failing on Fridaysand Saturdays, is as fuperftitious. (17.) " The obfervation offefüvah is unlawful. (r8.) " Trading, or keeping markets on the Lord's day, is unlawful. (19.) " In ordaining of minifters, the pronouncingthofe words, Re- ?' ceive thou the Holy Ghoft, is both ridiculous and wicked. (2o.) " Kings and bifhops fhould not be anointed." Thefe were Cartwright's dangerous doétrines, which e touched ac- eafronally in his leótures, but with no defign to create difcord, as appears by a tejtimonial fent to the fecretary of fiate in his favour, figned by fif- teen confiderable names in theuniverfity ; in which they declare, " That Strype's 1Pn- they had heard his leaures, and that he never touched upon the con- naá,vol.III, " troverfy of the habits ; and though he had advanced force propofrtions P' Z' " with regard to the miniftry, according to which he wifhed things might be regulated, he did it with all imaginable caution and modefly." Other letters were written in his favour, figned by zo names, or upwards, of whom force were afterwards bifhops; but itwas refolved to make him an example. Cartwright himfelf fent an elegant lgqgn letter to the fecretary, in which he declares, that he waved all occafona of fpeaking concerning the habits, but owns he had taught that our miniftry declined from the miniftry of the apoflolical church in force points, ac- cording to which he wifhed it might be modelled ; however, that he did this with all imaginable caution, as alrnofl the whole univerfity would witnefs, if they might be allowed. He prayed the fecretary to Pierce's hear and judge the caufe himfelf; which was fo far from novelty, that it Vmnd. P. 77; was as venerable for its antiquity as the apoftolick age ; but though the fecretary was convinced, that his behaviour was free from arrogance, or an intention to caufe trouble, and that only as a publick reader in the univerfity, he had given notes of the difference between the miniftry in 'the times of the apofiles, and the prefent miniftry of the church of Eng- land, yet he left him to the mercy of his enemies, who poured uponhim all the infamy anddifgrace their power would admit. They firfl denied him His punifh, his degreeof doftor in divinity, then forbid his reading publick leftures, andmoor. at Taft deprivedhim of his fellowfhip, and expelled him the univerfity. A 'Short and compendious way of confuting an adverfary! Mr. Cartwright being now out of all employment, 'travelled beyond Cartwright tea, and fettled a correfpondence with the moll celebrated divines in the goes beyond proteftant univerfities of Europe.- While he was abroad, he was chofen''A' Vol.. I. A a minifler
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